Three Anti-Israel Activists Arrested During Protest at U. Michigan
“blocked a parking garage and refused police orders to move”
Isn’t it fascinating how often these protests end in arrests?
The College Fix reports:
Three anti-Israel activists arrested at recent U. Michigan protest
A Wednesday anti-Israel demonstration at the University of Michigan drew approximately 150 students and activists … and resulted in the arrest of three.
The rally, sponsored by the 90-group-strong “pro-Palestinian” TAHRIR Coalition, assembled outside the Rackham Graduate School to protest the appearance of two former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) members at a Students Supporting Israel event, The Michigan Daily reports.
The Daily’s Glenn Hedin and Barrett Dolata make sure to point out Israel (allegedly) has killed more than 67,000 people since the war with Hamas started two years ago, and that the United Nations classifies its actions as a “genocide.”
They do not, however, mention how the conflict began in the first place.
UM senior Fiona Dunlop (pictured), a keffiyeh-garbed sociology major “with a focus in Law, Justice, and Social Change” according to her Linkedin profile, told The Daily the IDF should really be called the “IOF” — for “Israeli Occupation Forces” — because “they’re occupying Palestine [and] creating a genocide in Palestine.”
An anonymous rally participant referred to as “John” claimed activists “faced incidents of police force at the scene.” Cops “started grabbing unarmed, non-violent protesters […] started pushing them to the ground [and] threatened to use pepper spray,” he said.
John further accused police of being “incredibly vague” about the status of those arrested, saying they “really withheld a lot of the important information that we need to ensure that our friends and community members are safe.”
According to UM Division of Public Safety and Security’s Melissa Overton, police responded after activists “blocked a parking garage and refused police orders to move.”
Overton said three non-student demonstrators “were arrested on charges including resisting and obstructing police, attempting to disarm an officer, disorderly conduct, and outstanding warrants.” One of the three had a previous felony charge.
John accused UM of having a double standard: “Student groups like SSI can invite IOF soldiers who have committed war crimes in a genocide against Palestinians without any sort of repercussions; meanwhile, campus community members and people of conscience in general are being arrested and brutalized by DPSS, by UMPD, for protesting a genocide.”
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FAFO
The Arab/Israeli conflict has always been about whether Jews had a right to a majority Jewish state, no matter how small, in he land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Roughly speaking, there are 15,000 Jews in the world and 1.5 billion Muslims. Viewed as a conflict between Jews and Muslims, the Jews are outnumbered 100 to 1.
Roughly 60,000 Gazans have died and a little more than 2000 Jews have died. Percentage wise, the Jews have lost more than four times as many people as the Muslims. This calculation may seem silly but from the point of view of how the world is aligned on the struggle, it is one that pits the entire Islamic world against the Jewish world. For the Jews, it is a struggle for the survival of a small population pitted against a substantial proportion of the world’s population that wants to annihilate it.
Israel did not start this war. They hate taking casualties because it is such a small country. Everyone knows people who have died in the war. Most of the Islamic world knows not a single Gazan who has died so it is easier for them to encourage the endless wars to eradicate the Jewish state. And sadly, it is convenient for many of the western nations to lie about the nature of the conflict to curry favor with the more numerous Muslims.
I love how these lying idiots, equate, inviting a speaker with violent trespass and trying to disarm a law enforcement officer. George Orwell, call your office.
Has there ever been a US president so intolerant of Jew hatred as the current president?
“John” is too easy a target for ridicule and correction so I’ll let others do it.